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...makes sense after the U.S. learned that getting soldiers out of their vehicles and mixing among the locals was a key to turning Iraq around. Weapons designed to kill from afar may not be best for counterinsurgencies, in which intelligence is most often gleaned only by personal contact. General Peter Chiarelli, the Army's No. 2 officer, disputes the idea that FCS "is a Cold War relic." But not everyone agrees. Retired Army officer Andrew Krepinevich Jr., who advises the Pentagon as president of the independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says the U.S. already can do from...
...change a Defense Department culture that favors "99% exquisite solutions over a five- or six- or 10-year period" to a "75% solution in weeks or months." To help accomplish that, he is salting the military's senior ranks with officers who agree with him. He tapped General David Petraeus, whose counterinsurgency skills helped stabilize Iraq, to head an Army board asked to sift through colonels to identify those who merit promotion to one-star general. "An institution can always beat one or two people," Gates said recently, "but it's tough to beat four or five...
...career anymore.' TOM SUARTO, a retired autoworker whose son will lose his factory job next month. Since 1912, four generations of Suarto's family have worked for General Motors...
...team can make a decision, and then that way you have the best way of optimizing what I think are really the four dimensions of the person--the biological, the social, the psychological and the spiritual. I think we as a society, and the medical profession in general, need to really think through these issues, because it would be great to function as a team, to really take care of the whole person and to heal that person in whatever way that means...
...economic crisis continues, more households are growing their own vegetables as a way to save cash. Seed sales at two gardening companies, W. Atlee Burpee and Park Seed, have soared 20% in 2009. The National Gardening Association expects home gardening in general to increase 20% this year...